Yaysay launched a swipe-and-30-minute-timer app to bring off-price fashion online
Casper co-founder Philip Krim's Yaysay gives each user a daily AI-picked feed of designer items and 30 minutes to buy what they swipe on.
Fall lesenstartups.centerEIN CASESTUDIES.CHAT-ARCHIV
Jedes Unternehmen
fängt irgendwo an.
Wie Unternehmen entstanden, Fuß fassten und den nächsten Herausforderungen begegneten.
Das gesamte Archiv in der AppArtikel gibt es auf Englisch und vereinfachtem Chinesisch. Titel und Texte bleiben in ihrer veröffentlichten Sprache.
Veröffentlichte Fälle
2,000 VERÖFFENTLICHTE FÄLLE · REGELMÄSSIG AKTUALISIERTWordy, a solo developer's iOS app, teaches English vocabulary while you watch TV
A 23-year-old Budapest developer built Wordy, which listens to a TV show and shows word translations, with 500,000 titles at $2.99 a month.
Fall lesenWeRoad raises a $58M Series C led by Airbnb to take group travel and meetups to the US
Milan's WeRoad, with €130M 2025 revenue, will use an Airbnb-led $58M round to enter the US in Austin with its WeMeet in-person events app.
Fall lesenVisionrare pulled its paid NFT startup-share marketplace after a day and refunded buyers
Visionrare sold NFT shares of real startups as fantasy investing; after a day of pushback it refunded users and said it would relaunch free-to-play.
Fall lesenVirgio pivots from Shein-style fast fashion to circular fashion, cutting 33% of staff
Accel-backed Indian fashion startup Virgio dropped fast fashion for a circular brand, laid off 20 people and replaced four ex-Myntra department heads.
Fall lesenVibrant Planet raises a $15M Series A and signs PG&E for its land-management software
Vibrant Planet moved beyond nonprofits and agencies by landing utility PG&E as a customer for per-acre landscape and wildfire-risk planning software.
Fall lesenVFlowTech raised $10M to build a 200 MWh line for vanadium flow batteries
Singapore's VFlowTech raised a $10M Series A led by Real Tech Holdings to set up 200 MWh of production capacity for modular vanadium redox flow batteries.
Fall lesenVerse spins an AI creative canvas app out of its music app Discz's profile feature
Discz's founders saw users treating song-and-image profiles as a creative tool and built Verse, an iOS canvas app with 200,000+ creations by September 2024.
Fall lesenVerb launched a marketplace where consumers sell their own data to AI labs
Verb's phone tracker collects selected activity so users can set a price and sell data to companies, betting AI labs will pay.
Fall lesenutu raises $33M and buys CardsPal to give tourists miles or 120% vouchers on VAT refunds
The tax-free-shopping startup, co-founded by the Global Blue founder, has 10 airline partners and says partners can lift tourist spend by up to 40%.
Fall lesenUpLift raises $10.7M for insurance-based telemental health, incl. Medicaid and Medicare
The Tampa startup contracts with insurers at a single blended rate, aiming to help the 45% of psychiatrists who take no insurance.
Fall lesenAlex Cooper's Nestle-backed Unwell beverage line is reported shutting down after a year
The Call Her Daddy host's women-targeted hydration brand will end production after a Halloween flavor run, as Unwell raised at a $500M valuation.
Fall lesenTruepill agreed to a $525M sale to LetsGetChecked, mostly in stock, per Axios
Axios reported telehealth pharmacy Truepill, once valued at $1.6B, agreed to be bought by LetsGetChecked for $525M with only $25M in cash.
Fall lesenTickertape lays off 29 of about 96 staff as the Smallcase spin-out seeks sustainability
Two years after Smallcase hived it off, stock-research app Tickertape cut about 30% of staff in April 2023 and may fold back into its largest investor.
Fall lesenThrone repaid its investors in 2023 to bootstrap, then added Happy Wishlist
Creator wishlist startup Throne, profitable at mid-seven-figure revenue, repaid its $830K SAFE investors by December 2023 instead of chasing venture scale.
Fall lesenTezLab adds AI 'car reports' to a $5.99 Pro plan, built on Tesla's official API
The 'Strava for EVs' app, run by a team of five that spent a year working with Tesla's API, is expanding from Tesla to Rivian, then Hyundai and Kia.
Fall lesenTeachmint lays off about 70 more staff after pivoting to schools-only software
The Bengaluru edtech, which had raised over $100M, narrowed to school software and cut a second round of jobs five months after the first.
Fall lesenTAR raises $120M at a $1B valuation to build off-grid power for AI data centres
The Austin startup, founded in 2026, builds self-contained solar-and-battery sites in West Texas that never connect to the grid.
Fall lesenTalkiatry raises $130M Series C to scale in-network psychiatry with employed doctors
The telepsychiatry firm employs 300 psychiatrists on W-2s and takes insurance from 60+ plans; its CEO says it is preparing for an eventual IPO.
Fall lesenTagZ Foods sells to Reliance Consumer Products for Rs 28 Cr after halting production
The Shark Tank India snack brand, which had raised about $3.2M, was bought by Reliance Retail's FMCG arm in what Inc42 called a distress sale.
Fall lesen